Peleg barker



(No Model.)

P. BARKER.

i "f RAME. No. 503,758. Patented Aug. 22, 1893.

UNTTED STATES PATENT QFFICE.`

PELEG BARKER, OF KEARNEY, NEBRASKA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ALBERT E. HALL, OF SAME PLACE.

HAIVIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 503,758, dated August 22, 1893.

Application iiled November 16, 1892. Serial No. 452,154. (No model.)

T @ZZ 2071/0771/ may 0071/067711@ foration or opening S, and into this opening Be it known that I, PELEG BARKER, a cititakes the lug 7, the same passing through the zen of the United States, residing in Kearhaine-section. This lug, as before stated, is ney, in the county of Buffalo and State of Nemade considerably thicker than the remain- 5 braska,haveinventeda new and useful Haine ing portion of the clip as upon it comes the Attachment, of which the following is a speciwear or rubbing and chafing of the llame-tug. ication. Y The llame-tug consists of the usual D, 9, My invention relates to improvements in which is connected in the ordinary manner haine and tug attachments; and has special with the trace, and at the front side of the D 6o 1o reference to that class thereof employed for an eye 10 is formed. This eye is slightly connecting the hame and the hame-tug. curved, as best shown in Fig. 2, and is also The objects of my invention are to increase thickened toward its outer end. the strength and durability of these parts, so In assembling the parts, the clip is first constructing them as to obviate or reduce to placed in position upon the haine section, the l5 a minimum the wear by diffusing the same thick lug being driven into the perforation 8 over a considerable surface that usually o0- formed for its reception, and this driving 1s curs between the hame-tug and clip; and at continued until the perforations 5 register the same time to so secure the same to the with those in the haine-section. It will be name-section as to avoid any liability of the understood that the clip before driving has 7o zo section splitting. its lug passed through the eye of the D-con- With these objects in view the invention nection. Vhen the perforations 5 arrive opconsists in certain features of construction posite the openings in the hame-section the hereinafter specified and particularly pointed staple 3, which is engaged by the usual ring Out ill the C1amS 11 has its terminals passed through the per- 75 25 Referring to the drawingsz-Figure l is a forations 5 and those of the hame-section,

side elevation of a portion of a hame section whereby the securing of the parts is comprovided with my improvements. Fig. 2 is pleted. The exposed portion of the lug 7 is a transverse horizontal section through the somewhat greater in length than is the width llame-tug and the clip. Fig. 3 is a detail in of the eye 10 of the D-connection, and hence 8o 3o perspective of the hame-tng. Fig. 4 is asimithe eye may be moved along the lug and is lar view of the clip; and, Fig. 5 of the staple rendered iiexible. It will be seen that the for securing the ciip upon the section. Wearing between the parts, that is the eye Like numerals of reference indicate like and the lug, is diffused over the entire length parts in all the figures of the drawings. of thelug, and hence obviates that early wear- 35 The haine-section 1 is of the usual coning away of the hame-tug and staple so comstruction, and is provided with a pair of mon in ordinary harness, and which is caused transverse perforations for the reception of by the constant rubbing or chatlng between the terminals 2 of the staple 3, which telmithe two parts of the connection all at one nais are slightly reduced and fit snugly in the point. It will further be noted that the de- 4o perforations of the haine-section into which vice is simple and very strong as well as duthey are driven. fable,

The hame-clip consists of the opposite sides It is to be understood that changes in the 4:, which at one end are provided with eyes 5, ferm, proportion and the minor details of condesigned to receive the terminals of the clip struction may be resorted to without depart- 45 3, and have their opposite ends connected by ing from the principle or sacricing any of a slightly depressed cross-bar 6. This crossthe advantages of this invention. bar has its under side beveled orinclined and Having described my invention, what I projecting therefrom below the plane of the claim isbars 4 is a thick lug 7. The outer edge of the 1. A haine-clip consistingof a member hav- ICO 5o hame-sectionbetwecn the perforations before ing a U -shaped portion, the terminals of mentioned is provided with a ltransverse perwhich are perforated, and a centrally oppo- 2. The combination with a haine-section yhaving its outer face provided with a pair of perforations and its rear edge between the perforations having a single perforation, ol" a U-shaped clip having its terminals perfo-l rated to agree with the pair of perforations of the hame-section and provided at its transverse center with a fixed stud taking into the single perforation and located out of alignmentwith the terminals of the clip, a hame connecting-.D having an eye for engaging they lug, and a staple having its terminals passed through the perforations in the terminals of( the clip and through the hanne-section, substantially as specied.

3. The combination with the hame-sectiom: the outer face `off which is provided with a` pair of perfor-ations and the rear edge of which is provided with a single intermediate perforation, of the hame-clip consisting of 4. The clip consisting of the opposite sides t.

4, and the cross-bar 6 having its inner end ybeveled and provided with the thick lug 7,

combined with the tug having-the usual D 9 provided With thefeyle l0 slightly curved and thickened and adapted to engage the lug 7, and securing devices passing through the sides of the clip and into the haine as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the vforegoing as my own I have hereto 'affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

PELEG BARKER.

' Witnesses:

JOHN BRADY, PIL BRADY. i 

